Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Traditional festivals - The origin of March 8th Women's Day is 100.

The origin of March 8th Women's Day is 100.

1909 On March 8, 2009, women workers in Jiage and domestic textile and garment workers held a large-scale strike demonstration, demanding higher wages, an eight-hour working system and the right to vote.

This is the first organized struggle among working women in history. This struggle won the broad sympathy and enthusiastic response of women in the whole country and even other countries in the world, and finally won.

19 10 In August, the second International Socialist Women's Congress was held in Copenhagen. Representatives from 17 countries attended the meeting, which discussed the protection of the rights of women and children.

Its slogans and demands reflect women's strong desire and inspire women to fight for their own liberation. 1949 12, the Council of the Central People's Government of China stipulates that March 8th every year is Women's Day.

It has been 90 years since 1924, when China people first celebrated this festival, to 20 15. From 1960, the first batch of 10,000 "March 8th Red Flag Bearers (Collective)" were born in China, and it has been half a year since this glorious title. Generations of women in China commemorate this festival in various forms. The century-old history of "March 8th" International Women's Day has a close relationship with the women's movement in China, which has become a special public cultural space for the women's movement in China.